A total of 85 cases of cyber attacks on Việt Nam’s websites and information portals were reported in the past week, according to the Authority of Information Security (under the Ministry of Information and Communications).
Seventy four were phishing attacks and eleven were malware installations. According to the information security authority, attackers have been using malicious IP addresses/domains as command and control (C&C) servers within a botnet, which is a network of private computers infected with malicious software and controlled as a group without the owners’ knowledge.
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Source: Viet Bao News
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